524 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

more than fifty dollars, to be recovered by civil action in the
name of the State, to the use of the said Board, or by indict-
ment in the Criminal Court of Baltimore; false swearing on
the part of any such-witness shall be deemed perjury, and shall
be punished as such.

745. The said Board of Police Commissioners are author-
ized and required, immediately on entering on their duties of
their office, to appoint, enroll and employ a permanent police
force for the City of Baltimore, which they shall arm and equip
as they may judge necessary, under such rules and regulations
as they may from time to time prescribe; and the said Board
shall have power to remove any police officer or officers of
police, or any detective, for the violation of any rule or regula-
tion whichf they may make and promulgate to said police force,
officers of police, or any detective; said police force shall consist
of one marshal and one deputy marshal of police of the City, and
one captain, two lieutenants, two round sergeants, two turnkeys
and one clerk at each station-house, which clerk shall receive a
salary of 'eighteen dollars per week, and such number of ser-
geants as said Board of police in their judgment may deem
necessary for each police district in said City, and six hundred
and twenty men, which force may be increased at any time, if
in the opinion of the Board the public peace shall require, to
any number and for such period of time as they may think
proper, by the appointment of special policemen, who shall re-
ceive the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per day for their
services; the period of appointment in the regular police force
shall be four years, unless sooner removed for official miscon-
duct and inefficiency, of which the said Board of Police Com-
missioners shall determine, and the qualifications for the posi-
tion of officers of police or policemen, or detective, shall be of
good moral character, sobriety, citizenship of the United States,
ability to read and write, and physical strength and courage;
no person who has been convicted and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary shall be eligible to the position of officer of police,
policeman, detective or special policeman; the pay of an ordi-
nary policeman shall be eighteen dollars per week, payable